England girls’s cricket staff skipper Heather Knight will likely be trying ahead to main her staff to a second consecutive ICC Women’s World Cup title when motion will get underway at six venues throughout New Zealand from March 4.
The 31-year-old captain led her staff to victory within the 2017 version as effectively defeating India within the closing at Lord’s, and figuring out that England are one of many solely two groups in girls’s ODI cricket historical past to document over 200 wins, it’s not an unachievable activity for the veteran cricketer.
England, the four-time World Cup winners, have a powerful facet going into the event. One of probably the most profitable sides in girls’s ODIs because the finish of the final Women’s World Cup, the staff has the likes of Nat Sciver, Katherine Brunt (Player of the Match within the 2017 closing), Anya Shrubsole and Tammy Beaumont (Player of the event in 2017 event).
Several younger faces have emerged because the win in entrance of the house crowd in 2017, together with the likes of wicket-keeper Amy Jones, batter Sophia Dunkley and spinner Sophie Ecclestone, amongst others.
England’s solely loss within the 2017 event got here in opposition to India within the group levels. They beat South Africa by two wickets within the semifinal in Bristol and went on to script a memorable nine-run win within the closing.
The inaugural winners of the Women’s World Cup, England gained the first-ever event in 1973 led by Rachael Heyhoe-Flint. The skipper was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame in 2021. The award for the main girls’s cricketer yearly is called after her.
Two a long time 20 years after England gained their first trophy, they went on to win their second title at residence below Karen Smithies beating New Zealand at Lord’s in April 1993. They added one other to their kitty earlier than 2017, profitable the event in 2009 in Australia, beating New Zealand once more within the closing.
England have been constructing in direction of the World Cup with dedication and Knight had said in said in September final yr about constructing a pool of gamers for England to select from for the occasion.
Knight can be banking on Tammy Beaumont, ‘Player of the tournament’ within the final Women’s ODI World Cup to ship with the bat once more. The 30-year-old Beaumont has continued her wealthy vein of kind until 2022 from the highest of the order. Since 2019, she’s the one England batter to make greater than 1000 ODI runs, averaging 48.13 with the bat together with three a whole lot and 6 fifties in 27 matches, based on ICC.
No participant has made extra runs than Beaumont in girls’s ODIs because the finish of the final World Cup. With as many as 5 tons on this period, Beaumont additionally tops the century chart in girls’s ODIs.
Kate Cross, who missed the 2017 Women’s ODI World Cup, too is a necessary participant in England’s ODI plans. She has picked up probably the most wickets for them since 2019 — 37 wickets at a mean of 17.24. The solely participant to match her tally on this time interval is Australia’s Jess Jonassen.
England start their marketing campaign within the World Cup in opposition to Australia on March 5.
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